in all fairness though, your walking in knowing YOUR car with the one or two items you know you need in your mind, they have dealt with 25 different makes and models before you with a store consisting of thousands of items.

The guys there are basically sales reps, all they NEED to know is how to point you in the right direction and let you decide what product you want.

If they take pride in their work they might be able to tell you what of the 8 different brands on the one item your looking for seems to sell the best or has less come backs.

I would much prefer to deal with someone in a store like that who can only point me in the right direction then someone who offors opinions, because 9 times out of 10 someones opinion is not theirs, but someone else's that they heard so and so tell another guy.

I will 100% serve people to my very best. But if you don't want my help or want my advice. I don't care. You will never learn anything if you don't consider others opinions. But if you think you know more then someone else with every sales person in a store you will never learn.

I will 100% serve people to my very best. But if you don't want my help or want my advice. I don't care. You will never learn anything if you don't consider others opinions. But if you think you know more then someone else with every sales person in a store you will never learn.

The difference is you probably know more then 90% of the sales reps out there.

I always get a laugh when a sales rep tries to tell my cousin that he is buying the wrong parts for his car when my cousins is a mechanic with 15 years experience and built his car from the ground up.

but we know how to use the computer nahhh my boss makes me walk up to every customer and ask if they need help.. f**k its annoying.\

we have a chick thats the 'parts interpreter' males always laugh at her until she tells them she used to 2nd head mechanic for two v8 supercar teams.. the look on their faces is priceless

Parts interpreter?

When i try and think what that would be i picture a teenage girl standing around looking at spark plugs and asking someone what they are.

Actually this brings me to a story where a girl accused me of trying to rip her off..

I was at super cheap picking up some presents for my car (oil, filters etc...) and a girl approched me and asked what she needed for a servcie on her car.

Being the nice guy i am i told her exactly what she need (sparks, oil, filters etc...) and she started having a go at me becasue that what her mechanic told her she would need and how i was trying to rip her off...

I was just like bitch I dont even work here so why would i try and rip you off.

i used to work at autobarn. i used to deal with heaps of judgemental dicks, 17 year olds that wanted LED strips & southern cross stickers, scary old men. everything. and no matter who they were, you HAD to go greet them & offer help. i was really good at picking out who needed help and who didnt. i kinda went off what cars i saw pull up in the car park on the camera... and in that job, if i didnt know what the customer was on about i kept my mouth shut , if they wanted my honest opinion, they got it. we had some other dweeb working with us, who used to talk soooo much shit. it was painful. it still is hard working in this industry as a female ( autobarn was a part itme job, i'm nearly a qualified interpreter for a 9 franchise dealership. ) there are so many people out there that presume you know nothing cause your female. i still get extremely judgemental when i go into aftermarket auto stores. most of the time the young kids they hire know nothing. its just frustrating, when you are one of those young kids, and customers presume that you are like everyone else. its just sad that supercheap etc, dont hire people on knowledge, but how cheap they are to employ, you will find more success if you employ knowledge filled people, even if they cost 10 more an hour....

thats my experience of working in an autobarn, it was interesting. i prefer working for genuine though, the customers don't doubt me for a second

yeah my manager is female to, i have another "young" guy that works with me, he's a year old then me but knows jack shit when it comes to cars, god knows how he got the job!

for example the other day he was serving a customer,
then calls me over and says to the customer "maybe he knows what ur talking about"
he turns around and asks me "he wants to cap for his clutch, do u know what it is?
i say : "the cap for the cylinder?"
the customer says :"yep thats the one"
his reply to me was "what the hells that?"

how the f**k do you work at an auto store if u have no idea what a clutch cylinder cap is!!!

I work at supercheap and our store is one of the good ones. We dont have any bullshitters in out staff. I will point out though a few customers every day come in and dont listen to anything I tell them to the point where they try to run 20 - 50 in their 06 model car and not change the filter or just try to grab any spark plug like it doesnt matter about getting the exact right one. Makes me laugh. One guy got the shits today because he wanted a water pump for his corolla and didnt know the engine size or model or anything and then said "you guys are f**kin hopeless" when i insisted i needed more info to get the correct part number and left lol